NMLP P-038926 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton · Houghton Mifflin (Boston) · 1939

The pictorial red jacket is where the issue work is done: the early jacket carries an advertisement for Burton's Choo Choo at the rear inner flap, shows no author credit on the spine panel, and has 'H.M.Co.' on a yellow ground at the spine

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038926 for "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038926, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).